We have just under seven weeks to go until Joseph Parker and Anthony Joshua lock horns with one another. The unified WBO, WBA, IBF and IBO world heavyweight titles will be on the line at The Principality Stadium.
The New Zealander WBO titleholder and his trainer Kevin Barry have brought attention to Joshua’s fitness levels. Both Barry and Parker find it peculiar that somebody who trains so intensely and frequently has such problems with fatigue.
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Parker began by sharing that his body type suits him and he feels thoroughly prepared to fight twelve hard rounds.
“My body type, even though it’s not really muscular, [has] worked for us,” Parker told Sky Sports.
“We know that we can fight hard from round one to round 12. It’s all that matters.”
“I see videos posted everywhere of him doing the most sophisticated, new-age training methods that man has ever seen and yet, he has looked very tired in his last couple of fights,” Barry said.
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“Every time he has been asked to go on to the later rounds, he’s really struggled. So that’s a question for his training staff. He wouldn’t want to be slowing against Joe because I can promise you this – Joe will be coming on in the later rounds.”
“When you watch him when you see all the training,” Parker said.
“It’s like they are doing all this new training and it looks really hard, and it looks intense. It looks like the type of training that will prepare you for 12 rounds.”
“But in saying that, just maybe their team need to work on a few things;” Parker added.
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“We know that our team has a good structure. A good training program that will allow us to fight for 12 rounds if we need it.”
“But I’m not sure why he tires.”
“That’s something he has to sort of figure out.”
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